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Troops pound Taliban in Mohmand Agency after four Afghans captured

* Equipment, including tanks, APCs arrive for operation in Ghalanai

PESHAWAR: The security forces in Mohmand Agency on Monday attacked the Taliban holed up in mountains near the Afghan border, as fresh troops arrived following heavy fighting with insurgents, government officials said.

More than 600 Al Qaeda-linked terrorists attacked a paramilitary force camp and two checkposts in the agency on Saturday night, killing six soldiers and injuring seven, the officials said. At least 40 attackers were also reported killed.

Pakistani forces fired artillery at Taliban hideouts in the mountains above two villages, said Meraj Khan, a senior government official in Mohmand.

“Heavy firing is going on in the mountains but we don’t have any details of casualties yet,” Khan told Reuters.

Another official in Mohmand, Syed Ahmed Khan, said additional soldiers and equipment, including tanks and armoured personnel carriers (APCs), arrived at a military camp in Ghalanai on Monday, the agency’s main town.

Meanwhile, AP reported the security forces as saying that the four Taliban captured after the Taliban’s Saturday raid on Mohmand came from across the border in Afghanistan.

The Frontier Corps did not say how they had been captured. reuters/ap

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